Pure genius ah tell yea. Just political genius.
Let me put it like this:
Name a single bad nomination that Bush has ever made for anything. The only possible name I can come up with is Norman Mineta. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice, Estrada, Brown, Roberts, Ashcroft, the list goes on. Most of the names on every FReeper's short list for this nomination was one of Bush's own picks for the Circuit Courts.
Sorry, I don't buy the out-of-the-box arguement that Miers sucks.